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Uncovering Extrajudicial Black Resistance in Richmond's Civil War Court Records
Historians must read every imperfect archive with a particular perspicacity, to uncover the histories so many archives were meant to suppress or erase.
by
Lois Leveen
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Muster
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February 1, 2023
A Theater of State Panic
Beginning in 1967, the Army built fake towns to train police and military officers in counterinsurgency.
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Bench Ansfield
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New York Review of Books
on
September 16, 2022
Eighteenth Century Track Changes: Uncovering Revisions in Founding Fathers’ Documents
Let’s consider the significance and responsibility of outlining, drafting, and shaping our nation as the Founding Fathers put pen to paper.
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Tana Villafana
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Library of Congress Blog
on
July 7, 2022
What People Get Wrong About the History of Bisexuality
Bisexuality introduces nuance, which has always made it easier to discard than accommodate it .
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Julia Shaw
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Made By History
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June 23, 2022
Family Photos: A Vacation, a Wedding Anniversary and the Lynching of a Black Man in Texas
If Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had his way, the state’s past of lynching Blacks would be taught as an exception rather than the rule. History tells a different story.
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Jeffrey L. Littlejohn
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The Conversation
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May 30, 2022
A Permanent Battle
A new history draws on recently declassified archives to illustrate how the Korean War was an intimate civil conflict, not just a proxy battle between superpowers.
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E. Tammy Kim
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New York Review of Books
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May 5, 2022
Tax Regimes
Historian Robin Einhorn reflects on Americans’ complicated relationship to taxes, from the colonial period through the Civil War to the tax revolts of the 1980s.
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Robin Einhorn
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Noam Maggor
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Phenomenal World
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March 24, 2022
"The Last Refuge of Scoundrels"
Hiding behind "academic freedom," E. O. Wilson actively propagated race pseudoscience in collusion with white supremacists.
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Stacy Farina
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Matthew Gibbons
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Science For The People
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February 1, 2022
A Brief History of the Atlanta City Prison Farm
Slave labor, overcrowding, and unmarked graves — the buried history of Atlanta City Prison Farm from the 1950s to 1990s shows it’s no place of honor.
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Atlanta Community Press Collective
on
August 14, 2021
The House Archives Built
How racial hierarchies are embedded within the archival standards and practices that legitimize historical memory.
by
Dorothy Berry
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up//root
on
June 22, 2021
When Good Government Meant Big Government
An interview with Jesse Tarbert about the history of the American state, “big government,” and the legacy of government reform efforts.
by
Jesse Tarbert
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Law & History Review
on
June 16, 2021
Project: Time Capsule
Time capsules unearthed at affordable housing sites offer alternative, lost, and otherwise obscured histories.
by
Camae Ayewa
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Rasheedah Phillips
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E-Flux
on
June 14, 2021
The Precious, Precarious Work of Queer Archiving in the Pacific Northwest
Local legacy-keepers are working to ensure that the histories aren't lost or forgotten.
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Emma Banks
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Atlas Obscura
on
June 9, 2021
The General, the Mistress, and the Love Stories That Blind Us
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.
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Noah Flora
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Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
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The Nation
on
April 5, 2021
Has the World Gone Mad? An Interview with Sarah Swedberg
Swedberg's new book shows how prevalent concerns about mental illness were to the people of the early American republic.
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Sarah Swedberg
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Rebecca Brannon
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Nursing Clio
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March 25, 2021
How a Cuban Spy Sabotaged New York's Thriving, Illicit Slave Trade
Emilio Sanchez and the British government fought the lucrative business as American authorities looked the other way.
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John Harris
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Smithsonian
on
March 8, 2021
How Black Women Brought Liberty to Washington in the 1800s
A new book shows us the capital region's earliest years through the eyes and the experiences of leaders like Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Keckley.
by
Tamika Nunley
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Karin Wulf
via
Smithsonian
on
March 5, 2021
The Fever That Struck New York
The front lines of a terrible epidemic, through the eyes of a young doctor profoundly touched by tragedy.
by
Carolyn Eastman
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Smithsonian
on
February 26, 2021
A Priceless Archive of Ordinary Life
To preserve Black history, a 19th-century archivist filled hundreds of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other materials.
by
Cynthia R. Greenlee
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The Atlantic
on
February 9, 2021
You Can Now Explore the CIA's 'Entire' Collection of UFO Documents Online
Thousands of pages of declassified records are available for anyone to peruse.
by
Isis Davis-Marks
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Smithsonian
on
January 15, 2021
What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus
Jefferson revised the Gospels to make Jesus more reasonable, and lost the power of his story.
by
Vinson Cunningham
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The New Yorker
on
December 28, 2020
The Truth in Black and White: An Apology From the Kansas City Star
Today we are telling the story of a powerful local business that has done wrong.
by
Mike Fannin
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Kansas City Star
on
December 20, 2020
A Temple of Sound Awaits in the UCSB’s Collection of Early Music and Sound Recordings
The treasures include recordings of string quartets, spirituals, sermons and politicians who might have been startled to hear the sound of their own voices.
by
Randall Roberts
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Los Angeles Times
on
November 12, 2020
Last Pole
The author goes looking for the history of telecommunication, and is left sitting in the slim shadow of a lightning rod, listening to a voice from beyond the grave.
by
Julian Chehirian
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The Public Domain Review
on
May 27, 2020
Long-Forgotten Cables Reveal What TIME's Correspondent Saw at the Liberation of Dachau
Two copies of the first-person account were tucked away, largely untouched until after his death. Now, his family is sharing his story.
by
Olivia B. Waxman
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Made By History
on
April 21, 2020
My Uncle, the Librarian-Spy
In 1943, a Harvard librarian was quietly recruited by the OSS to save the scattered books of Europe.
by
Kathy Peiss
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CrimeReads
on
February 5, 2020
The Way We Write History Has Changed
A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.
by
Alexis C. Madrigal
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The Atlantic
on
January 21, 2020
The U.S. Stole Generations of Indigenous Children to Open the West
Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.
by
Nick Estes
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High Country News
on
October 14, 2019
This Long-Ignored Document by George Washington Lays Bare the Legal Power of Genealogy
In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.
by
Karin Wulf
via
Smithsonian
on
June 18, 2019
Walt Whitman's Boys
To appreciate who Whitman was, we have to reinterpret the poet in ways that have made generations of critical gatekeepers uncomfortable.
by
Jeremy Lybarger
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Boston Review
on
May 30, 2019
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